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>> chris: question. why is it wrong in a national census, accounting of all of the people in the country, to ask, are you a citizen or aren't you? chris, i believe that the founding fathers envisioned getting accurate counts of everyone in america and there should not be questions being put on this information gathering initiative that's going to discourage people from answering their doors to answering that very question, and the concern that many people have or most people have not just democrats but republicans, especially coming off the u.s. supreme court's decision that itt is allowed bas...

Knew people who were enslaved. some older folks who i believe knew enslaved folks. it wasn't all that long ago. it created a -- the failure of reconstruction created jim crow. so you can see -- you can trace the distance between the average median black family and white family from then on and the gap between them has widened, every single year, every single decade we have seen black families have less and less compared to white families and that's because as we have all these segregated policies we've had on the other hand white families have been given lots of money. you know, we had the gi ...

Families, and that is because as we have all of the segregated policies on the other hand, white families have been given money, with the g.i. bill, the new deal. and housing programs for the standard middle-class white families that black families were not allowed to be a part of. and so if you are taking what we have given white americans, and give it to black folk, i don't know if that is going to constitute the whole of reparations, but it would be quite a bit of money, and this is a good place to start the conversation. >> vann, and robert, i agree with you that everyone needs to have thi...

Hypocrisy. >> absolutely. >> victoria, what do you think about this? it is rare to have someone who has had as many employees and done as much public business as donald trump. it gets lost on voters. he lies a lot about his business. his businesses are opaque and secretive. and then you have stories like this that clearly cut against the perception around the businesses. >> it speaks to the larger lack of getting at the real root cause of immigration to this country which is demand. folks want to hire undocumented persons, folks have the desire to do so. the need to do so for their businesses....

>> laura: rents are going up in cities across the united states and yet the left, a lot of fair isle's activists, say that 10,000 units of public housing are lost to decay according to your own department and saying that you aren't doing a lot to fix this. >> there are a lot who believe throwing money at the problem is a solution. first of all, the budget proposed makes sure that we protect everybody in all the housing programs. nobody is going to be thrown out. but we are looking at things which comes and rebuilds and a lot of these dilapidated places and takes care of that deferred maintenan...